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submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) by spu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Most other search engines show https://www.southparkuncensored.com/ after searching for "south park uncensored" or "southparkuncensored", but Bing doesn't, and therefore DuckDuckGo and Qwant neither.

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[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Damn shame. I use DDG, but them consistently fucking up makes me want to switch. Though i don't know of any alternatives.

edit: thanks for the recommendations!

[-] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 4 points 13 hours ago

I literally told you months ago I have a SearXNG instance up, you fucking knob.

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

I forgor cry ;-;

I'll set it as my main tomorrow and see where this goes lol

[-] DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca 32 points 23 hours ago

Kagi. Privacy focussed, no ads, and excellent results with options for sorting preferred sources to appear at the top, or not. Costs money but man, it’s fast and good in the way Google was back in the day. Some plans also include anonymous access to a variety of LLMs though they are older models, and if they can run them locally, they do. Really liking it.

[-] troed@fedia.io 30 points 22 hours ago

FWIW the founder of Kagi is adamant that subscribers must accept part of the subscruption money being sent to Russia (Yandex, fully govt-controlled) and has refused all attempts at excluding it. When questions started appearing he even tried claiming Yandex isn't even russian.

[-] Ilandar@lemmy.today 8 points 20 hours ago
[-] AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 14 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)
[-] Ilandar@lemmy.today 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Thank you!

EDIT: Okay, reading the replies there it seems like this is a virtue signalling issue rather than something specifically wrong with Yandex search results. Like how some people tried to start a boycott of Proton over a tweet that praised a Trump appointment, or accused Ladybird browser of being "transphobic" because someone tried to discuss gender pronouns in the issue tracker and was told it was not the right place.

[-] AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social 1 points 2 hours ago

Not wanting to financially contribute to a country that's invaded and has been performing genocide on its neighbor, and has been actively waging hybrid wars on European and US democracies is not virtue signaling.

Also, this.

[-] july@leminal.space 10 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Ngl I don’t get these people always being like “Source?”

Just look it up bruh it takes less time than to comment

[-] Ilandar@lemmy.today 4 points 10 hours ago

Asking the person who purports to be an expert on the situation to provide some context is much faster than someone who knows nothing about it, like myself, trying to find it.

[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 20 points 17 hours ago

Just look it up bruh it takes less time than to comment

Source?

[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 14 hours ago

Yea, it's gets to sounding like playground argument tactics "nuh uh!" (which is basically sophistry).

Even when I'm being genuinely curious these days, I try to ask for a source by making it a convo, like "do you remember where you came across that or what should I search for to get good results", instead of "source?".

[-] smh@slrpnk.net 6 points 22 hours ago

I swapped to Kagi this month. It's refreshing. I'll probably end up on the $10/month plan. They also have a library pilot program I'm trying to get my academic library to look into.

[-] DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

I used it for almost a year at the lowest tier, then got the couples plan more recently and it has high spouse approval factor, even though there was some initial setup

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 23 hours ago

I'll give the trial a go, thank you for the recommendation

[-] RedPandaRaider@feddit.org 2 points 20 hours ago

Which country are Kagi servers hosted in?

[-] DrinkMonkey@lemmy.ca 3 points 20 hours ago

Dunno. Check their about page, but appears to be through GCP?

[-] YarrMatey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 23 hours ago

https://leta.mullvad.net/ uses Brave or Google

https://searx.space/ uses any of the big search engines you want, you do have to pick an instance

[-] relativestranger@feddit.nl 3 points 21 hours ago

https://leta.mullvad.net/ uses Brave or Google

thanks for this one. i'm currently trying out their encrypted and adblocking dns on the hotspot i set up on dietpi to isolate 'streaming' devices, comparing its effectiveness to pihole and adguard home.

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago

Thanks! I think i'm set on searxng + some other stuff i'd like to try.

[-] sonalder@lemmy.ml 10 points 23 hours ago

SearXNG instances, bravesearch, startpage, etc...

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

Doesn't startpage use google, though? Wouldn't it still be affected?

I will try searxng/brave, thank you

[-] sonalder@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

Yeah it is dependant on Google and Google can do censorship. However from personnal experience (maybe it differ in different countries) Google does less censorship than Microsoft at least regarding their search engines.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 5 points 21 hours ago

Yacy? You can self host if you want.

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 21 hours ago

I've heard of it before but never dug into it, will do. Thanks

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 4 points 21 hours ago

Its not great if I'm honest. But it does work!

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Best one is probably (in my opinion) selfhosting a searxng instance. It takes results from a dozen of engines (you configure which ones) and merges them according to the configured weights and some algorithmic magic.

If you use public instances, the owner might have tuned the results to suit themselves and it returns garbage for your usecase. And also they frequently get timeouts because a lot of people use them. So don't get turned off by trying a couple of them.

Since I started running my own private instance I am super happy with the search results.

[-] Tinkerer@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 hours ago

+1 i have my own searxng instance on my lan that I access via my headscale VPN setup. Love it.

[-] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

Thanks for the recommendation!

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Startpage is similarly anonymous, but it uses Google search

[-] lunsjentilanette@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

And is owned by an ad company afaik

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, they advertise using only the context of the keywords of your current search. No storing of personal data, no profiling. They've had third parties review that. Seems fine to me.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

Startpage's majority shareholder is System1 who is an adtech company. We don't believe that to be an issue as they have a distinctly separate privacy policy. The Privacy Guides team reached out to Startpage back in 2020 to clear up any concerns with System1's sizeable investment into the service, and we were satisfied with the answers we received.

From privacyguides.org

[-] simpolomeo@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 hours ago

searxng and 4get are great alternatives

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